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A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

Rosalinda Fitzroy wakes up from 62 years of chemically-induced stasis in a forgotten subbasement to a kiss. Normally, her mother wakes her up from stasis to a champagne brunch and a warm welcome, so...

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Babylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood

Rick enjoyed the first fifteen minutes. The rest not so much. He was bored by the rebellious teen. The pretty girl who knows science and the adorable pre-teen were OK. None of the dialogue sounds like...

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New Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh

Latest arrivals to the SF Site office include new and forthcoming works from James Barclay, David Drake, Greg Keyes, James Lovegrove, Justina Robson, and many others.

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Watching the Future: a column by Derek Johnson

Recently, Derek attended a podcast on the "essential" science fiction films. What should every fan see? What are the linchpins of the genre? He served with a distinguished panel, and everybody...

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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume Two: Adjustment Team...

The second volume of this new edition of the collected stories of Philip K. Dick contains some 26 stories from the early period of his career. Written in 1952 and 1953, they represent an astonishing...

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Aftermath by Ann Aguirre

Sirintha Jax saved the human race from the horrifying menace of the flesh-eating Morgut, but only by crippling interstellar travel for everyone. Worse, she may have stopped most of the Morgut, but a...

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Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

Imagine a future not so far away and not so fantastic, where humans are so dependant on robots that we hardly give them a second thought. They're in our homes, cars, phones, and work places. They...

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Germline by T.C. McCarthy

This non-stop military techno-adventure is set in the middle of a war in Central Asia in the 22nd century. Russia and the United States are fighting over the resources of Kazakhstan. It turns out that...

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Graveminder by Melissa Marr

At first glance, the little village of Claysville may appear to be just like any other middle American town of its size: families grow and blend, and everybody knows one another and pitches in when...

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Sky City: New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Authors edited by Carl-Eddy...

Every few years, international science fiction appears to be spotlighted by an American editor, whether it is the excellent SFWA European Hall of Fame edited by James and Kathryn Morrow in 2007 or...

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Faking It by Keith Brooke

In recent years, Keith Brooke has been writing superior science fiction and fantasy novels such as Genotopia, The Accord and The Unlikely World of Faraway Frankie. His considerable skills were first...

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The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson

The book takes place in the same world as the Mistborn Trilogy, but this time the story is about 300 years into the future. Guns, railroads and skyscrapers exist and electricity is just becoming...

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Steelhands by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett

Owen Adamo, a former Chief Sergeant of the Dragon Corps,now a professor of strategy at the university of Volstov, learns that Esar, the ruler of the capital, has a covert agenda to bring back...

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Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams

Mark London Williams has written about his life here as a middle-aged single dad. His readers's tolerance for the use of that "material" here is appreciated, by the way, but increasingly, he has...

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Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor

Red Dwarf. The Dwarf. The Boys From the Dwarf. Smeg Head. Kryten. Smeeeeg Head. Rasta Billy Skank. Holograms. SF trope rip-offs. Hell, every-decent-SF-movie-ever-made rip-offs!! And yes, that sentence...

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The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock edited by Donald E. Morse and Kalman...

When Robert Holdstock died, late in 2009, he left behind a body of acclaimed work that effectively constituted a paradigm shift in how we regard fantasy. But there was no equivalent body of critical...

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Noise by Darin Bradley

The novel joins other notable society-wide apocalyptic fictions such as Stephen King's The Stand, Jose Saramago's Blindness, and Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower: apokalypsis in medias res....

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New Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh

This time we're looking at new works from Neal Stephenson, Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan, Charlaine Harris, Richard K. Morgan, anthologies of new horror in time for Halloween, and plenty more!

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Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams

A unique melding of Frank Herbert's Dune, Jack Kirby's Fourth World, Michael Moorcock's The Dancers At The End of Time, A.E. Van Vogt's bizzaro, golden age space operas, and the Greek tragedies, The...

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A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

Westeros is a ravaged and war torn kingdom. House Lannister still controls King's Landing under Tommen's rule although it is tenuous at best. The Lannisters have earned themselves many enemies...

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The Lighthouse Land by Adrian McKinty

Talk about a young hero coming up from reduced circumstances. Jamie O'Neill, at age 13, has lost his left arm and his voice as a result of a bout with bone cancer. The arm was amputated in order to...

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Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold

Miles and Ekaterin Vorkosigan deferred their honeymoon for a year after their wedding, but they've spent several months touring the nexus while their first children gestate in uterine replicators back...

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Black Static, Issue 21, February-March 2011

This issue has to be read to be believed, Peter Tennant's column being the best, Ray Cluley and Maura McHugh's stories captivate, and Mike O Driscoll's argument on genre fiction makes it a very...

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Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension by Christie Golden

Things seem to finally be going well for the Jedi and the Galactic Alliance. With the appointment of an interim Chief, the removal of Natasi Daala, the return of Luke Skywalker and the apparent...

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Judas Payne: A Weird Western by Michael Hemmingson / Webb's Weird Wild West:...

This is very much a book of two halves, being two books in one connected only by basic theme. When one title is read, flip it over and start a whole new story from the other side. Halves come into...

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The Lady of Situations by Stephen Dedman

The collection has a range and sense of controlled exuberance. There is a disregard for easy genre categorisations. For instance, the title story is pretty much a mainstream literary piece about a...

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WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer

Webmind, the world's first true artificial intelligence, has finally revealed himself to humanity, sparking a firestorm of controversy and mixed reactions. Despite ingratiating himself by all but...

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